Nice article,VM. One correction though. The first universities were in Africa. Some of them have been continuous learning centers for more than a thousand years. Mervyn On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 5:40 AM, V Mwrote: https://scroll.in/magazine/829347/goas-western-classical-music-tradition-is-witnessing-a-revival-500-years-after-its-birth
By 1543, it was deemed that all-Goan choirs would sing at church services. That year, local boys sang at the inauguration of St Paul’s College, the first University outside Europe.
